Product OverviewCompact 2 Channel Passive Volume ControllerThe Nano Patch+ really comes into its own when connected between your computer audio interface/soundcard master outputs and a pair of active (powered) monitor speakers. One of the benefits of passive volume attenuation is that you no longer have to control volumes with your software’s master volume fader. Reducing levels from your software only reduces the audio bit depth. It is much more appropriate to keep your software masters at unity and attenuate the audio to your active monitors with a passive controller like the Nano Patch+. This way you can maintain maximum audio resolution and attenuate your monitoring volume with the confidence that the sonic integrity of your audio is not compromised.

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Smooth action, seems well made.It's quite expensive for what is basically a variable resistor, but it's well made and has both TRS and 3.5mm inputs/outputs which makes it fairly flexible.
Although it's not light, it could do with being a bit heavier so that the cables didn't try to drag it off the desk, but that's probably because I'm using four heavy-guage cables rather than a fault of the volume controller.
The mute function is also clean, there's no popping when muting or unmuting sounds, which is actually important as those pops are really bad for your subwoofer or larger monitors.